RACHMANINOFF-small photo portrait in Russian made tin frame-2-1/2" x 3-1/4"

Description

You are bidding on a small photograph of Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) in tin frame made at the Georgian Artel Mkhatvari in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Probably made in the early 1950's.
Rachmaninoff had performed in Tbilisi at the invitation of Lev Ishov and Adolf Schweiger, owners of the Tbilisi Musical Bureau numerous times, 1913,1917, etc.
Rachmaninoff's Bechstein grand piano is located presently in Tbilisi.
The paper backing hinge is missing.